March 31, 2004
Oddz 'n' Endz
Good morning, I happen to have a few extra minutes today, and I figured I'd write about a few things that we've done in the last week that haven't really made it into any blog entries yet...
Last week, our new armoire arrived - we had ordered in 6 weeks earlier, and now we finally got it. If anyone remembers my blog entries from March last year, you may recall that this year is strangely following suit... first there was my St. Patricks day entry, then my birthday entry, then an entry about how amazing the weather is, then an entry about our brand new sleigh bed being delivered... well, it took us a year to saev up for it, but we finally managed to get the armoire that matches the bed. It's nice... you can kinda see it at the back of the picture:
The other big thing that really deserved it's own entry was the weather on Monday! Whoah! 26.5 degrees in March! That was a hot frikken day - it's hard to believe that right now, even though it's clear blue skies, it's only 3 degrees...
I finshed my taxes last night - that ws an ordeal and a half... next year, I get professional help - this is just getting too crazy. What with all the medical expenses and stock trading last year, calculating the refund was insane! I spent between two and four hours a night on this stuff for about 7 or 8 days out of the last two weeks. Yes, it would have been worth it to pay an accountant.
We're getting in to the nitty gritty planning stages for our upcomming trip to Cancun - if all goes well, we'll be there in a month - but knowing the way my Whister plans came together, I've kinda got a sinking feeling about this one... aw, no matter - even if we fly to Mexico and have to sleep on the beach for a week, I'm sure I'll be happy...
I saw Gothica the other day - anybody else seen it? It's interesting - certainly has a good twist at the end, all though there's some pretty blantant forshadowing... well, in hindsight there was. The director really used some cheap gags that always piss me off when I see them though... they're the standard horror film gotcha's that are so cliche, so over-used, so lame that when you see the setup you just scream at the screen "no! don't do it! Please don't resort to that!!!" You know what I'm talking about.... victim goes down a dark staircase with only a flashlight - suddenly, there's a noise in the corner. She slowly peers behind the obstruction and... BAM! Oh no! out jumps a black cat-slash-owl-slash-rat-slash-innocuous-animal-de-jour. The only gag more cliche than that, I think, is the following... victim knows she's in a haunted house. She goes to the bathroom to clean the blood/vomit/sweat/whatever off her face. She looks in the mirror above the sink, everything is fine. She bends down to splash water on her face, and when she stands up and opens her eyes, what do you think she sees in the mirror, standing right behind her? Oh No! A big bad ghost! which of course, won't actually be there when she turns her head around, or blinks, or whatever... then there's always the 'oh no, you hear that? someone's coming... it must be the killer - this is so tense and scary! Phew, thank goodness, it was only the comic sidekick.' Gee, I never saw that coming. SO, despite the fact that the director felt compelled to scrape the bottom of the cheap-thrills barrell, this flick DID actually have some clever plot twists - it could be viewed as having stolen great ideas from all sorts of movies ranging from Se7en, Sixth Sense (I see dead people! You'll get it at the end...), Ghost, 8MM, Blair Witch 2, The Shining, & The Ring - which reminds me... Why the hell are dead children so scary this year??? Geez, as if Kingdom Hospital wasn't bad enough, it's like if you don't have a cute (yet scary) little dead girl that appears to move very rapidly and sporatically at 8 frames a second in your film, then you're doomed to box office failure... I call it the Marilyn Manson Effect.
So anyway, that's my oddz 'n' endz for this week - C-ya-L8R.
Posted by Calvin at March 31, 2004 08:23 AM